Greetings, I am using modified MatchPattern, MatchPatterns and SelectorUtils in the new Apache Rat 0.17. I had to modify them because I needed visibility to the matching patterns, and because package private made some extensions impossible.
The MatchPatter and MatchPatterns classes are final so I can not extend them to add the functionality I need. I think that keeping them final makes sense. So I would like to add - A public String source() method to MatchPattern to return the "source" instance value. - A public List<String> sources() method to MatchPatterns that would return a list of MatchPattern.source() called on each enclosed pattern. - Expose MatchPattern method static String[] tokenizePathToString(String path, String separator) - Expose SelectorUtils.isAntPrefixedPattern With these changes I can create a decorated version that will do what we need to do in Rat. Are there any comments, suggestions or issues with this idea? If now I'll submit a pull request. Claude -- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
